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5 days ago · A masters student at the University of Exeter, Lowenna Jones, analysed those 507 pieces and found 28 different types of plastic polymers. This shows that plastic comes from so many different ...
2 days ago · The most well known is the non-profit organization Ocean Cleanup, which has already removed 220,000 pounds of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. However, some experts fear that its ...
6 days ago · Many people think of the great Pacific garbage patch as a huge island of floating plastic. But it actually looks like pristine open ocean until we looked closer and sampled the surface waters where we found thousands of tiny plastic pieces. To sample microplastics in the surface waters, we used a manta trawl.
5 days ago · 21. The ocean, vast and seemingly infinite, has been humanity's dumping ground for plastic waste. With 171 trillion pieces of plastic amounting to 1 million to 1.7 million tons currently...
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2 days ago · Nic Bothma, EPA-EFE. A plastic Garfield phone sits on a beach in Le Conquet, France on March 30, 2019. A shipping container which feel off a ship in the 1980s, was found in a hidden sea cave ...
3 days ago · Ambitious targets are needed to end ocean plastic pollution by 2100, analysis finds. The biological microplastic aggregation processes considered in this study and how they are formed. Adapted ...
